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Determining the maximum number of unit vectors in $\mathbb{R}^r$ with no pairwise inner product exceeding $\alpha$ is a fundamental problem in geometry and coding theory. In 1955, Rankin resolved this problem for all $\alpha \leq 0$ and in…

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In problems of lossy source/noisy channel coding with side information, the theoretical bounds are achieved using "good" source/channel codes that can be partitioned into "good" channel/source codes. A scheme that achieves optimality in…

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